Episode 302

Intuition Saved My Life Multiple Times | DFS 302

Get all the inside secrets and tools you need to help you develop your intuitive and leadership skills so you are on the path to the highest level of success with ease.  Gut feeling.  Hairs on the back of your neck.  Voices in your head - not the crazy ones!

In this episode you will learn:


  • First steps to know if it is intuition or second-guessing
  • A few critical times when I should have listened
  • When listening saved my life


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Transcript
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Welcome to destined for success. I'm your

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host Jennifer Takagi, and I want to continue the discussion about

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intuition. Last week, Dagmar Fleming shared about intuition

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and some great things to do some tips and some ideas. And I want

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to talk about my personal experience with intuition.

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Sometimes intuition can be called a gut feeling like I felt

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it in my gut, I knew that was the right thing, or I knew it

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wasn't the right thing. Sometimes you get hairs raised

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on the back of your neck, that's often in a dangerous situation.

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And you're like, ooh, so I need to pay attention to my

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surroundings. Sometimes you have voices in your heads. I don't

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mean like the crazy kind of voice. I mean, the voice in your

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head this, like, you should pay attention to this. All of that

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is intuition. All of his important, all of it matters. So

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one thing I'm asked often is, how do I know if it's my

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intuition? And then I start second guessing. So I was going

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to my friend, Christina, and I just have recognized recently

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did you notice it? I say, so a lot. It's the beginning of a

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sentence. It's going to be my goal from this point on not to

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do that. So let's be positive and optimistic that I can start

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a sentence differently. People this is real life, and this is

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how I roll. I was driving to my friend Christy's house. And it

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was five o'clock traffic, it was kind of busy. And my other

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friend Leisha taught me to put in the address where I was going

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to my GPS, whether I knew how to get there or not. And I was

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like, wow, that's a great idea. So I, so I did it. Let's start

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counting. I did that I put her address in Christy's addressed

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it and off I go. As I am, about a mile from the highway, I want

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to get on my GPS start saying, Turn left. Turn left. And I have

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named my GPS Lola after Robin Williams in the movie, RV. His

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GPS was named Lola. Therefore I named mine, Lola. And Lola says

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turn left and I was like, Lola, you're crazy. And I keep going.

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I get to this is like an area that has several little lights

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close together like not even a full city block apart. And I'm

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caught at the next like five o'clock traffic. It's Oklahoma.

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You know, we have rush 15 minutes. I'm in the middle of

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the rush 15 minutes. And Lola says turn left and I get to the

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next little block and the next light and Lola says turn left.

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And I'm like Lola, you're nuts. I do not need to turn left like

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the highway is right there. I finally make it through the last

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light going over the overpass to get onto the highway and I look

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and there is a sea of red tail lights. Lola was right. I should

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have turned left. If I had turned left at any of the

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multiple places she told me to. I could have gotten North one

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mile and gotten past this see a taillight? I did not do that. I

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didn't stop to think intuitively should I go ahead and listen to

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Lola. I was just being argumentative. I was not doing

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it. I ended up in a bunch of traffic. I ended up having to

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drive on the frontage road for three miles because I wouldn't

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even be able to get on the highway. That is an example of

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where there was no intuition involved. I had technology that

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typically serves me well. Lola has gotten me places and I get

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there and I think thank goodness for GPS and for Google Maps

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because I would never have arrived at my destination. Yes I

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know there's somebody out there the Negative Nelly going well,

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Jennifer one time yet sent me down the wrong road. Yeah, it

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did mistakes happen. But I'm gonna say 99.9% of the time Lola

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gets me where I need to be. And if I need to take a detour. I

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try to pay attention to Lola. But this day I was not. And it

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costs me Now intuitively, without even checking in without

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asking a question. I knew to follow my GPS. She doesn't lead

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me astray. But I didn't and therefore That is why it took me

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longer to get to Christy's house than it should have taken me.

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How do you know how to listen to your intuition? So one easy way,

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wherever you are, as long as you're not driving in a car, or

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a train or plane, where you're actually driving the vehicle, if

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you're at a place where you can safely safely is key, sit up

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straight. And I don't mean rigid, but sit up straight, your

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shoulders are kind of relaxed, but your back is straight. And

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ask yourself a question. That's a yes. Such as for me. I'm going

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to say or ask the question Is my name Jennifer, I'm sitting up

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straight. And I asked myself is my name Jennifer, and my body

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gently leans forward? Because I am Jennifer. If I'm sitting up

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straight, and I ask myself, Am I Christie, I lean back a little

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bit, and I'm leaning back. Because I'm not Christie, that's

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not true for me, our bodies will naturally lean in to something

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that is right or true for us. And it will pull away from

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what's not for us. Another way is to use a pendulum. If you've

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ever worked with me either one on one or attended one of my

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group clearing sessions, I use a pendulum and they have all

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different stones, I have a tiger's eye, a blue topaz, a

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pink quartz, I don't know I have several, they just kind of lay

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around the house, I have a white quartz that's missing. And

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somebody told me when they go missing, it's because they have

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fulfilled their mission in your life. And they just vanish. And

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it's vanished. I don't know what's happened, I'm sure it's

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in the bottom of a purse or something. But with the crystal,

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I hold it in my left hand, I'm right handed, right hand

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dominant. And I hold it in my left hand while I'm talking to

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the person or I'm talking to myself, not out loud. But like

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I'm thinking about the things I want to work on or address. And

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as I hold that crystal, I'm literally putting my energy into

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it so that the crystal is connecting with me. For me, when

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I hold my crystal up, it goes forward and back to indicate a

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yes. And it goes around in a counterclockwise circle. To say

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no. I have a friend hers is exactly the opposite. Hers goes

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in a circle for yes and forward and back for a no, you have to

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ask the questions and you have to get in sync with what it is

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with using crystals. I know many practitioners who put it out

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when the moon is full so the moon can recharge it. Sometimes

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they keep them all in a window seal so the sun can recharge it.

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I'm sure every bit of that is 100%. True. I'm sure it is. But

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I don't got time for that. Ain't nobody got time for that? Well,

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I don't. Because that doesn't mean anything to me. It's what

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you put meaning on. For me What's meaning is holding it in

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my hand and letting it connect with me. The other thing that

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you can do is just take time to listen. If you have a big

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decision to make in your life, whether it is financial, a

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business decision, is this a good business decision or choice

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for me or not? Those kinds of questions. If you sit with it

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quietly and quietly is very important. The answer will

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bubble up and you will hear it whether it's actual words or

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just a knowing or you'll see a picture of the outcome. Whatever

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it ends up being, it will work out and you will see it. So

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there are multiple ways to listen to your intuition. You

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can Google it, there are all kinds of YouTube videos on it.

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And they all work. They all work. It's what fits for you

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that matters. So there are a few times when I did not listen to

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my intuition. I've already shared the one go into Chris's

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house. The other one that's a really big one. And I have

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shared it on stages a couple times. And it's a pretty fun

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story. Though, but when I was in high school, one of my besties

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introduced me to guy his name was Keith. And I did not like

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him from the get go. Like he just was not my kind of guy. And

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she would make these little comments about oh, you should

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date him. Oh, I just think you'd be the best couple and I'm like,

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No.

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A few years later, he was a year ahead of me in school and a few

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years later he transferred to the University of Oklahoma where

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I was going to school working on my Bachelor's, and he moved in

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with three or four other guys. And I knew all of them from high

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school. Most of them were a year ahead of me, a couple of them

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were a couple of years ahead of me, but we all knew each other.

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And we ended up going out like as a group, it was like, we're

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all from Edmond, Oklahoma. So we'll all go have cocktails or

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whatever. And Keith was always there. And before I knew it, I

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was dating him, like, how did this happen? And then one day, I

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woke up, and I thought, I should not be dating this guy, like, he

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is not my kind of guy. So I called him up. And I was like,

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hey, I really loved running around with you and being

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friends. But I don't think I want to be dating anymore. And

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he said, Oh, I'm coming right over to discuss this. Well, he

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showed up. And if I had any artistic ability at all, I could

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literally draw my bedroom in this duplex that I shared with

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my roommate. And I could literally draw him sitting on

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the floor with his back against my dresser, hands, you know,

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covering his face crying on how he didn't want to break up.

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Okay, we had been together like four or five months. I know, in

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college, that's like, you know, four lifetimes. But it wasn't

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really that long in the grand scheme of things. Against my I

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would say, then my better judgment. Now, I would say,

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against my intuition against everything that I knew that was

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holy. I got back together with him. And that started a pattern

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of together, have a fight, breakup together have a fight

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breakup, I won't go into all the various things that happen. But

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I will say they all ended up with me marrying him, because

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that's what you do. You pick the worst possible person, you fight

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every instinct you have. And then you marry the guy. Does

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that sound like you at all? Have you ever done that? Maybe you

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didn't marry and maybe you were smart, and you got out sooner.

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My mom really wanted me to be married and he was a guy and he

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was there. And it all worked out for 12 months and 11 days. Don't

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let anybody jeje 12 minutes. 11 days can be a very long time

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people a very long time. So I knew not to marry him. The list

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was long on why not to marry him. And let's start with number

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one. I'm a Christian. I was born on a Monday my first time in

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church was the following Sunday. I have always known I've always

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believed, and my belief has never wavered, ever. He was an

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atheist. He didn't believe at all. And he thought it was

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really fun to poke fun at me. After we married my mom and dad

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would come pick me up on Sunday morning to go to church and out

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to lunch. You weren't allowed to go out to lunch. If you didn't

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go to church. Mom had a few little worlds there. And she'd

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say, So Keith didn't want to come today. And I'd say no, he's

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never going to want to come. No, he's not. And my mom just could

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be so sweet. And she turned around and she goes, Well,

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Jennifer, God can move mountains. He can move Keith.

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And I went oh, yeah, but our mountains don't argue. So they

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didn't fight it. They were like, lame and not lame is in a bad

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way lane. But like they were just there. They weren't

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fighting back and say no, I'm not moving. And so we divorced.

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And when I went to see the preacher, not the preacher that

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married us, but another preacher, maybe he was the one

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that married us. I don't remember. But I was like, hey,

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you know, I don't know about all this. And he said, You had red

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flags everywhere. They were like virtually slapping you in the

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face. And you refuse to listen. So your sin is not getting a

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divorce. Your sin is in not listening when God put every

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single possible thing in front of you. So that you would say

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no, but you said yes. Anyway. Did I learn a lot in that

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relationship? Yes. Did I finally come to terms with the fact that

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I played a part in that relationship? Yes, but that was

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hard. And it took a lot of years and I didn't really want to do

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it. Could I have avoided all that heartache by listening?

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Yes. Yes, I could have. I had all the messages but I refuse to

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listen to them. So my question for you is are there times when

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you can look back Hindsight is 2020 Right? We get that

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Hindsight is 2020 Are there times when you can look back and

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say, Wow, I knew and I knew in all these ways that it was the

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wrong thing, and I did it anyway. Do not beat yourself up

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for it, but just recognize that these things happen. And when we

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can start seeing a pattern of when we do these things, then we

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can start to move beyond it and move past it. So pay attention,

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I said, so again, I've been trying so hard not to, but pay

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attention to those voices, students messages. Now, when has

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listening literally saved my life. If you're newer to the

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podcast, and you don't know me very well, I'm Jennifer Takagi

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from Oklahoma City. Nice to meet you. On April 19 1995, I worked

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in the Murrah Federal Building here in Oklahoma City. And it

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was a bright, sunny, beautiful spring day, right after Easter.

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And I woke up sick, I had bronchitis I was coughing up a

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lung. I had no business, even hardly getting out of bed, much

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less going to work. And I sat at the kitchen table, and I debated

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for probably 20 minutes do I go to work? Do I stay home? Am I

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well enough to go to work or sick enough to stay home, I was

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building a career, I was making an impact. I was trying to make

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a name for myself. And I needed to go to work. It wasn't the

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work from home days back in the day, you had to go into the

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office. And a soft, gentle voice said, Stay home, take care of

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yourself. And I thought well, that's really weird. I have a

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lot to do. And as I had that thought that I have a lot to do.

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Another voice said you need to go to work. Not only do you need

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to go to work, here are the things you need to do, like gave

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me my to do list. And it felt like I had an angel on one

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shoulder and a devil on the other one saying sweet, nice

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things, stay home take care of yourself. The other being very

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harsh, very critical. I decided I would split the difference.

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And I would go in at noon. That way I could stay home a little

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bit longer, drink some more juice, take a hot shower and

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then go to work later. And that way I would appease both halves

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of this argument going on in my head. Well, at 9:02am A Ryder

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truck pulled up and blew up the Murrah Federal Building. And

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that was my building. 35 of my friends and colleagues were

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killed from how to loan countless others I knew within

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the building. And had I gone to work. I would be dead because

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the building sheared off about three feet south of my desk and

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at nine in the morning. I was almost always at my desk it

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would have been a rare occurrence that I wasn't. And

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everybody around me was killed everybody that sat near me. I

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got back a crumpled note. A crumpled nameplate that my mom

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had bought me when I got my first job and a few family

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pictures. And that was it out of my workstation. I knew that I

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knew that I knew that I was literally not supposed to be

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there that day. And had I not listen to the message I would

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not be sharing with you now. Because I would have not

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survived. Another time I was driving home from work. And it

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was a funky intersection. There was a stoplight. And then you

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went not even a city block maybe half a city block if even that

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and there was another light is like the streets all Christi

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crossed right there. And the speed limit was like 40 miles an

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hour. I'm in the right lane. There's a car in the left lane

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and we're pretty close together like not really neck and neck

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but pretty close to neck and neck. And out of the corner of

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my eye on the right. headed south and we were headed west. I

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could see this car coming really fast. And our light had just

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turned green. And I knew that that car was not going to stop.

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And I literally stood up on the brake with both feet slamming on

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my brakes and laying on my horn.

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And because I laid on my horn and I'm sure my tires were

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screeching. The woman in the car next to me slammed on her brakes

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too because she didn't know what was happening because I was

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making so much noise with screeching brakes and laying on

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the horn you get The picture right like it was a whole thing

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going on right then. And she stopped to had she not stopped,

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she would a T boned that car, that guy would have been killed,

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and probably she and her boyfriend would have been

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killed. So we both looked at each other, we take a breath, we

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go to the next little light. It's read also, when we're both

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trying to catch our breath. And I, I noticed something out of

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the corner of my eye, and I turn and look to my left. And she is

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laying over her passengers. person sitting there and there

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was a guy and had him roll down the window. And she was waving

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at me and I rolled my window down and she goes, Oh, my God,

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you just saved my life. And I went, I know, I know, I don't

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know how and I don't know why. But I know because I knew if I

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did not stop her. One, two, or all three of them were going to

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be killed, it just was going to be too fast, too high impact of

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a wreck. And once I caught my breath, and we made it through

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that intersection, she went her way I went my way. I'm thinking

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about this scenario. Nobody ever taught me and Driver's Ed. If

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there's a crisis slam on your brakes and lay on your horn,

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like that never came up. I believe I was intuitively

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divinely my higher self source God, all of the above any of the

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above guided me to slam on my brakes and horn at the same

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time. And when I say stand on my brakes, I literally was standing

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up in my seat with both feet on my brakes to stop the car.

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having had that experience, some time pass, it could have been a

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year it could have been five years I don't remember the the

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timing of it. I was driving to work on a residential, you know,

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a through street speed limits 40. I'm in the left lane. And

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two cars in front of me is at a dead stop turning left. And

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there's a car in front of me and then me and I just happened to

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look in my rearview mirror. I'm at a dead stop. And there is a

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commercial van vehicle construction type vehicle coming

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up on me. And I can see in my rearview mirror He is literally

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has his head turned talking to the passenger. He doesn't see

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that we're all at a dead stop. So I laid on my horn. Because I

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learned right I learned from the previous message if you lay on

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your horn, everybody looks around. He looked up and at the

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last second was able to whip over into the right lane and

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avoid a collision altogether. And I did take a moment of

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gratitude and thank you that I was guided to hit my horn in

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Oklahoma, we don't really honk much some places they just honk

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willy nilly and nobody pays attention. In Oklahoma people

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don't really honk a lot. If you honk you're like really pissed

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off or there's really a problem. But when somebody opts everybody

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looks around. And those are a few really critical times in my

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life when paying attention to my intuition, paying attention to

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the message, whether it's an audible message in my head,

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whether it's a gut feeling, don't go down that street, stop

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and get gas. You don't want to go to the next case gas station.

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I ended up randomly being stranded in Atlanta and I rented

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a car and drove from Atlanta, to our little lake place in eastern

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Oklahoma. It was a 12 and a half hour drive. And then I had

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another almost three hours to get to the airport to return the

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rental car the next day. And I pulled into a parking into a gas

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station. And I was on the phone it was Bluetooth but I was on

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the phone talking to a girlfriend because it was a long

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drive to talk to a lot of people that day. And I'm trying to get

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to a pump and I look around everything around me is in

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tatters the cars, the people, the gas station building itself.

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And I was like hang on a minute, I gotta back out of here. And I

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let God out and I backed out of there and I went to the next gas

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station and it was clean and it was bright and it was you know

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not all in tatters. Would anything bad had happened to me

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at that first gas station? Probably not. But why do I need

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to feel icky about getting gas in a rental car that I had to

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google how to get steaks I could put gas in it. These are the you

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know first world problems that I have. So listening I did Again,

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there was another. So listening to your intuition can either

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save you from a whole lot of heartache such as a divorce when

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you shouldn't have gotten married in the first place. Or

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it can literally save your life. I encourage you to start

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listening to start paying attention, write a list of 10

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questions that are yes or no? And have four or five of them be

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yes. And the others be knows, in practice, is it a yes? Is it a

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no. I wasn't an event and somebody was leading us through

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a visualization. I can talk visualization exercise. And she

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was talking about our future. And we all were standing with

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our eyes closed, and she was talking about our future, and

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what it's going to look like and what it's going to look like for

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you as an individual. And, and then she stopped and said, what

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if it's five years from now, and you've not done anything

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different? So what a break another. So at the break, we

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broke into groups of two to discuss our experience. And I'm

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talking to this gal and she's I said, Did you Did your body

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physically move during that exercise? And she said, yeah,

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why? And I said, when she was talking about your future life,

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did your body literally lean forward? And she said, Yes. And

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I said, and then when she talked about if in five years, you've

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done nothing. Did you lean back? And she said, Yeah, I thought I

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was just kind of swaying because we were standing with our eyes

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closed, and I said, No, you leaned forward to lean into your

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future, because that's what you want. And you pull back to get

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away from what you didn't want. If you would like an audio

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series to help you get clarity on what you want and how to move

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forward with your life. Go to 12 minute gift.com 12 minute

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gift.com and get my three part audio series so you can start

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planning out your life and create the life of your dreams.

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I'm Jennifer Takagi and I look forward to connecting with you

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soon

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I am Jennifer Takagi, an Executive Leadership + Communication Coach who teaches leaders how to play well at work so they can drive better performance from people they lead, increase profitability and create a purposeful workplace where people want to come and play—productively.